Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
We are born poets. we become orators.
Life is nothing without friendship.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.